REAPER is such amazing quality software. In my makeshift studio/music room there is a spare machine with an 8-in/8-out sound card, just to record some drum trac

REAPER is such amazing quality software. In my makeshift studio/music room there is a spare machine with an 8-in/8-out sound card, just to record some drum tracks and so forth. The machine is an Athlon Thunderbird 1400 with 512 MB of RAM and Windows 2000. REAPER runs flawlessly, rock stable, fast as any other DAW you'd care to name on a modern system. It's a recent version; I see now that the very latest one doesn't support Windows 2000 anymore but it did as late as maybe a year ago. The full version is a nine megabyte download. It has pretty much all the same features of Cubase, Pro Tools, Logic etc. and is way ahead in terms of customizability. REAPER must be some of the most well-written and likeable software out there currently. It's just refreshing to see such thought and care being put into a program. It's very affordable, too. I recommend it wholeheartedly whenever someone asks me about how to start recording music with a PC.